Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
31 July 2025

An Act devised by silly people, passed by silly people, enforced by silly people

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The Online Safety Act in the UK has a name that could come from a dystopian movie, but it was introduced under previous Prime Minister, Rish...
21 August 2015

Harmful Digital Communications Act indeed

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Turn away for long enough and I find the NZ government does something outrageous to curtail freedom and to expand Nanny State, sure enough ...
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23 December 2014

North Korea's internet shutdown? So?

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Whilst much of the media has parroted reports that the "DPRK's internet has been shut down", few actually specified the sourc...
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01 February 2011

Where is Facebook not used?

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Look at this map, showing Facebook connections. Well there are three reasons for big dark areas: 1.  Nobody lives there (vast tracts of t...
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21 October 2010

Where did the Liberal part go?

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In the midst of the announcements of slender cuts to public spending in the UK, came the n ews that the government is to proceed with Labour...
14 January 2010

Google says no to the Communist Party of China

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Google's enormous success as a company offering a search engine and advertising related to it has given it dominance in how people searc...
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04 May 2009

Phones, streets and mail not safe for children

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That's my reaction to the Privacy Commissioner's absurd declaration that the " internet is not safe for children ". What ...
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